English Explanatory Dictionary

repute

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
verb
  1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈpjuːt/ en-us-repute.ogg

Word forms

repute reputes reputing reputed

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

Derived words

reputeless disrepute habit and repute ill repute marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute marriage by habit and repute reputable reputation misrepute reputability reputee
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